SLA Europe awards
The SLA Europe Information Professional
The SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award (ECCA)
The SLA Europe Dissertation Prize
The SLA Europe Information Professional award
Established in 1994 this award recognises outstanding achievement in the information profession amongst those living and working in Europe.
This is your chance to gain recognition for a professional colleague or yourself. The winner receives an expenses-paid trip to the annual SLA Conference. Nominators of the successful candidate receive a magnum of champagne.
Note: Applications and nominations for the 2010 Award will be announced during Online, December 2009
Current winner:
Congratulations to our SLA Europe Information Professional 2009!
The Board of SLA Europe is delighted to announce Gimena Campos Cervera as the winner of the SLA Europe Information Professional Award 2009 (SLA Europe IP 2009).
Announcing the winner, SLA Europe President Géraldine Clément-Stoneham said: “Gimena is an example of a highly motivated information professional who continually finds ways to give back to the profession”.
Gimena currently works in Rome at the United States Embassy to Italy, where she is the Senior Information Researcher and Deputy Director of the Information Resource Center of the Office of Public Affairs. Originally from Paraguay, Gimena’s career in the field of library and information sciences spans a variety of national and international organizations, including the Paraguayan Centro de Documentacion y Estudios, the Italian ENAIP, the United Nations Agency International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Health Organization. She has a Masters degree in Library and Information Sciences from the Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, Scotland), accredited by the ALA.
Gimena is recognized as SLA Europe IP 2009 in particular for her instrumental role in the organization of an annual international conference on libraries in the 21st century, which has helped create and strengthen an American-Italian library network in Italy. The Spring Event social network (http://springevent.ning.com) was created as a web 2.0 communication tool for the first Spring Event annual conference, and is one of the first social networks for the Italian information professional community of library professionals.
The Award covers all appropriate expenses for Gimena’s attendance the SLA Centennial Conference in Washington, DC 14-17 June, 2009, where a dinner was hosted by SLA Europe Board and where Clare Hart formally gave the Award at the International Reception on Monday 15th June 2009 at the Zambian Embassy. Clare is Executive Vice President at Dow Jones, which has kindly sponsored the Award for its 16th year.
Congratulations Gimena! (pdf)
Previous winners:
2008: Dennie Heye (Netherlands) 2007: Janet Hopkins (Germany)
2006: Marie-Madeleine Salmon (France)
2005: Steve Borley (Scotland)
2004: Janet Tomlinson (England)
2003: Peter Clarke (England)
2002: Margareta Nelke (Sweden)
2001: Annabel Colley (England)
2000: William Hann (England)
1999: Kevin Miles (England)
1998: Lise Lotte Lindskog (Sweden)
1997: Tuula Salo (Finland)
1996: Ruth Colyer (England)
1995: Ian Thomson (England)
1994: Michel Bauwens (Belgium)
Ten Years of the SLA Europe IP award by Sylvia James
The SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award, inaugurated in 2007 and formerly called the SLA Europe Student Conference Award, is an all-expenses-paid award given to a Master's-level LIS graduate student or someone in their first five years of information work who would be a first-time attendee at an SLA annual conference.
The cost of the ECCAs has been shared among SLA Europe, several SLA Divisions and a number of industry sponsors.
Congratulations to our SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award Winners for 2009!
On behalf of SLA Europe and our partnering SLA Divisions, Business & Finance (B&F), Insurance and Employee Benefits (IEB) and the Leadership and Management Division(LMD), we announce the winners for the four student awards to attend the Centennial Conference in Washington, DC June 2009:
Sara Batts (Senior Research Librarian, Reed Smith and PhD candidate in Information Science, Loughborough University)
Annie Richens (Assistant Librarian, Communities and Local Government)
Bethan Ruddock (Challenge Fund Support Officer on a national union catalogue in a national data centre supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and ESRC)
Laura Woods (MSc Library and Information Studies, 2009 working part-time in the evening at the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and will shortly begin working at the law firm, Davies Arnold Cooper. )
Full Press Release (pdf)
Past Winners
2008
Emma Dhesai (Brighton University), Sarah Hammond (University of Sheffield), Hanna Lewin (University College, London) and Sandy Peterson (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) (pdf)
The SLA Europe Dissertation Prize is given to a currently enrolled Masters-level LIS student in the following programmes: Brighton, London Metropolitan, Loughborough and Sheffield universities. Staff at each university select the best dissertation on a subject pertinent to those working in special libraries.
The award, launched in 2007, includes a certificate and a £100 cheque. The intention is to continue to make these awards to students at the four participating universities until 2011.
Congratulations .... to our Student Dissertation Prize Winners for 2009!
Richard Lalleman of London Metropolitan University, Jill Rutt of the University of Sheffield and Hardy Schwamm of Loughborough University
Full details on our award winners. Interviews with each of the winners and a summary of their researc findings appear in issues of SLA Europe News and on our Early Career page.
Previous Winners
2008 - Betty Rabar (London Metropolitan), Clare Sinclair (University of Sheffield) and Frances Warrell (University of Brighton)
2007 - Rachel Adams (University of Sheffield), Victoria Bird (University of Loughborough), Ben Bose (University of Brighton) and Tanya O'Rourke (London Metropolitan)
Awards Chair, SLA Europe